Implementing Intelligent Traffic Control System for Congestion Control,

Ambulance Clearance, and Stolen Vehicle Detection

This paper presents an intelligent traffic control system to pass emergency

vehicles smoothly. Each individual vehicle is equipped with special radio frequency
identification (RFID) tag (placed at a strategic location), which makes it impossible
to remove or destroy. We use RFID reader, NSK EDK-125TTL, and PIC16F877A
system-on-chip to read the RFID tags attached to the vehicle. It counts number of
vehicles that passes on a particular path during a specified duration. It also
determines the network congestion, and hence the green light duration for that
path. If the RFID-tag-read belongs to the stolen vehicle, then a message is sent
using GSM SIM300 to the police control room. In addition, when an ambulance is
approaching the junction, it will communicate to the traffic controller in the junction
to turn ON the green light. This module uses ZigBee modules on CC2500 and
PIC16F877A system-on-chip for wireless communications between the ambulance
and traffic controller.

Existing system:
In existing system a RFID and GPS based automatic lane clearance system forambulance is
developed. The focus of this work is to red the ambulance to the hospital by automatically
clearing the lane, in which, ambulance is travelling, before it reaches the trafc signal. The
communication between the ambulance and trafc signal post is done through the transceivers
and GPS. The system is fully automated and requires no human intervention at the
trafc junctions.

Disadvantage:

The disadvantage of this system is it needs all the information about thestarting point, end point
of the travel.

It may not work, if the ambulance needs to take another route for somereasons or if the
starting point is not known in advance.
Block Diagram:

Proposed system
It mainly consists of three parts. First part contains automatic signal control system. Here, each
vehicle is equipped with an RFID tag. When it comes in therange of RFID reader, it will send the
signal to the RFID reader. The RFID reader will track how many vehicles have passed through
for a specic period and determine the congestion volume. Accordingly, it sets the green light
duration for that path. Second part is for the emergency vehicle clearance. Here, eachemergency
vehicle contains ZigBee transmitter module and the ZigBee receiver will be implemented at the
trafc junction. The buzzer will be switched ON when the vehicle is used for emergency
purpose. This will send the signal through the ZigBee transmitter to the ZigBee receiver. It will
make the trafc light to change to green. Once the ambulance passes through, the receiver no

longer receives the ZigBee signal and the trafc light is turned to red. The third part is
responsible for stolen vehicle detection. Here, when the RFID reader reads the RFID tag, it
compares it to the list of stolen RFIDs. If a match is found, it sends SMS to the
police control room and changes the trafc light to red, so that the vehicle is made
to stop in the trafc junction and local police can take appropriate action.
Advantages:
These 3 parts are available as convenient modules in the market and easily connectable to MCU.
The critical levels of the traffic jam have been indicated through alerting unit. The system
successfully detected the primary appearances of emergency vehicles.
Conclusion:
With automatic traffic signal control based on the traffic density in the route, the
manual effort on the part of the traffic policeman is saved. As the entire system is
automated, it requires very less human intervention. With stolen vehicle detection,
the signal automatically turns to red, so that the police officer can take appropriate
action, if he/she is present at the junction. Also SMS will be sent so that they can
prepare to catch the stolen vehicle at the next possible junctions. Emergency
vehicles like ambulance, fire trucks, need to reach their destinations at the earliest.
If they spend a lot of time in traffic jams, precious lives of many people may be in
danger. With emergency vehicle clearance, the traffic signal turns to green as long
as the emergency vehicle is waiting in the traffic junction. The signal turns to red,
only after the emergency vehicle passes through. Further enhancements can be
done to the prototype by testing it with longer range RFID readers. Also GPS can be
placed into the stolen vehicle detection module, so that the exact location of stolen
vehicle is known. Currently, we have implemented system by considering one road
of the traffic junction. It can be improved by extending to all the roads in a multiroad junction.

SOFTWARE:
Embedded c
Ride to write code
Isp to burn the chip

 Keil compiler.

HARDWARE:
Lpc2148
Power supply
Lcd display
Buzzer
Max 232
Serial communication